Bradley Perrett covered China, Japan, South Korea and Australia. He is a Mandarin-speaking Australian.
Before joining Aviation Week in 2006 he was a macroeconomics, politics and aerospace journalist with Reuters. Perrett holds a bachelor’s degree in law from Macquarie University, Sydney. He left Aviation Week in 2020.
The government of Tibet, the Chinese province with the greatest challenges for commercial aviation, is pushing low-cost carriers to set up local branch companies to help implement a new policy of promoting air links, certainly with subsidies.
Saab is introducing gallium-nitride (GaN) technology to airborne early warning and control (AEW&C), with a multi-mission aircraft based on the Bombardier Global 6000 business jet that combines aerial, ground and sea surveillance, with signals intelligence as an option.